Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer written in Java, available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. With Subsonic, you can stream your music from home computer or any public-facing computer and listen to your music from anywhere with a web browser.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Subsonic Media Server on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.
Install Subsonic Media Server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Installing Java.
First we need to install Java by running the following three commands in sequence:
add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java apt-get update apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
Step 2. Installing Subsonic Media Server.
Run the following commands to install Subsonic Media Server on Ubuntu systems:
wget https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/subsonic-public/download/subsonic-6.0.deb
Next, install the downloaded Subsonic package by running the following command:
sudo dpkg -i subsonic-6.0.deb
Once it’s installed, the Subsonic daemon will automatically start:
systemctl start subsonic systemctl enable subsonic
Step 3. Accessing Subsonic Media Server.
Subsonic Media Server will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com:4040 or http://server-ip:4040 and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 4040 to enable access to the control panel.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Subsonic. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Subsonic Media Server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Subsonic Media Server web site.